CABLE SURVEY

[Ants]

I had the opportunity to audition three different coaxial cables this past week which would hopefully compliment my recently purchased Moon Mind 180 connected to my 120. Nothing exotic and very high end was used. All cables are modestly priced (well below $400) and assembled by a local dealer who specializes in making interconnect and power cables of all sorts.

Two of the three were made from a pure silver Furutech coaxial cable, one fitted with Furutech rhodium RCA connectors and one with the same connectors but with a gold finish. The third cable was also made from a Furutech cable and fitted with silver RCA connectors.

The cables using the rhodium and silver RCA connectors sounded much better than the USB input I was previously using. It seemed to convey vocals in a more natural manner with some nice top end and more relaxed presentation. However, the third cable using the Furutech gold connectors and pure silver Furutech coaxial cable provided even more natural sounding vocals, a lesser top end, larger imaging and just drew me into the music. In the end, I selected this cable, which just happened to be the more expensive ! Funny how that is...

It makes me appreciate the Devialet a little more (given all the issues with AIR) and realize that it has a mighty fine DAC and is a solid sounding amplifier.